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When to use AN instead of A
A and AN mean the same thing. A is used before words beginning with a consonant (any letter except a, e, i, o, or u) and AN is used before words beginning with a vowel: a, e, i, o, or u; or in front of a silent h. So basically, if a word has a vowel sound, AN should be used.
Remember too, some words beginning with the letter u don’t always sound like a vowel. U has two pronunciations:
(a) uncle, umbrella, ulcer – here the U is a true vowel and AN should be used
(b) university, uniform, union – here the U has a ‘y’ sound and A should be used
Examples:
AN unofficial report
A unique form of protest
AN excellent piece of work
AN heir to the throne
A young offender
A guardian angel
AN hour later
AN effort to discredit the politician
A unified force
A meeting of athletes
A foreign university
AN interim committee
AN honest day’s work
A health centre
Adapted from Merle Hodge’s The Knots in English: A Manual for Caribbean Users; Forthcoming: Ian Randle Publishers
12 steps to Generating your Own Product Bar Code
We’re often asked where we get our Bar Codes or how we get them done. We actually generate them ourselves. Here are the steps:
Install the Coral Draw Software
Launch programme after installation
1. Pull down drop down menu of ‘application launcher’ (found on the top menu bar – an icon looking like a torpedo/rocket ship)
2. Select barcode wizard (this opens a dialogue box)
3. Select ‘EAN-13’ (if ISBN is 13 digits)
4. Punch in the first 12 digits of the ISBN, the last digit will automatically be inserted, then click next
5. For best resolution of barcode when printed, insert the following values in the corresponding fields and click next.
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- printer resolution – 300
- units – inches
- bar width reduction – 1 pixel
- magnification scale – 100
- bar height – 1.0
- wide to narrow ratio – 2.0
6. Check ‘make this barcode human readable’ in the new dialogue box and click finish
7. Click yes to ‘copy barcode to clipboard’ when prompted
8. Go to ‘edit’ and choose ‘special paste’ from the main menu
9. Choose ‘picture (metafile)’ from options in the new dialogue box
10. Click ok and you’ve got your barcode
11. To export as jpeg, go to main menu and select ‘file’ and choose ‘export’ from the drop down menu
12. Save image as jpeg
NB. Some people choose to add the ISBN at the top of the image, you can insert this manually by simply creating a text box and typing the numbers. Do this before exporting the image.
Tastes Like Home
We’re so excited about two ‘out of the box’ projects that are slated for publication later this year. Jamaica Fi Real by Kevin O’Brien Chang is a full colour coffee table book on Jamaican music, history, culture, sports, religion, food, art and places of interest. It’s not a travel guide by any means, and in fact may well be the first book to give a down to earth, true Jamaican portrayal of the beauty, vibes and culture of Jamaica. The other project is called Tastes Like Home and is a food memoir and Caribbean cookbook rolled in one. Our author/chef Cynthia Nelson has us licking our lips as she describes old time favourites that make us long for home. Visit Cynthis’a blog to get a taste of what’s in store with this book.
IRP and CXC Launch Exam Past Papers
Didacus Jules (left), Registrar at the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) accepting new past paper books from Ian Randle, Chairman of Ian Randle Publishers on Thursday April 8, 2010 at CXC Headquarters in Barbados.
CXC has granted Ian Randle Publishers exclusive rights to publish syllabuses and past examination papers for all CAPE and CSEC subjects. IRP also has rights to publish all subject reports, specimen papers and mark schemes for both CAPE and CSEC. IRP was chosen as CXC’s publish after a transparent bidding process where regional and UK-based publishers competed to offer CXC a range of services.
Read the full story at http://www.caribdaily.com/article/275452/cxc-launches-new-line-of-past-papers-booklets/
Sam Sharpe and the Quest for Liberation
In 2008 we published Daddy Sharpe: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Samuel Sharpe, A West Indian Slave Written by Himself, 1832 by Fred Kennedy.
The Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture at Regent’s Park College, the Baptist Union of Great Britain, the Jamaica Baptist Union, and BMS World Mission will host an international conference on Sam Sharpe at Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford from April 13-16, 2010. The Conference title is Sam Sharpe and the Quest for Liberation:Context, Theology and Legacy for Today.
The Conference takes as its centre-piece the story of Sam Sharpe, the Baptist deacon and enslaved person who played an important role in the ‘Great Jamaican Slave Revolt’ of 1831. One of the leaders of a group of enslaved persons who took part in a ‘sit-down strike’ against slavery, he was executed together with more than 500 others. Nevertheless, their revolt is recognized by historians and theologians as having a powerful influence on the process leading to the abolition of slavery, and Sam Sharpe is honoured as a National Hero in Jamaica. The story is of a Baptist Christian whose actions were clearly motivated by his faith and by his reading of scripture; he is reported to have said, ‘In reading my Bible, I found that the white man had no more right to make a slave of me than I have to make a slave of the white man.’ He remains a witness to the principle of ‘liberation from below’: that is, true liberation comes when those who are oppressed or marginalized participate in making their own freedom and justice, rather than simply having it granted to them by those who have power and authority. This is what the Conference identifies as the ‘legacy’ of Sam Sharpe today.
Taken from http://www.rpc.ox.ac.uk/newsevent.php?newseventid=13
Congratulations Professor Verene A. Shepherd
Congratulations to Professor Verene A. Shepherd who has been appointed to the Working Group of Experts on People of African descent. The working group was established by the (United Nations) Commission on Human Rights to address human issues affecting people of African descent.
Professor Shepherd is Professor of Social History at the University of the West Indies, Mona, and the author and editor of several books, her latest being Livestock Sugar and Slavery: Contested Terrain in Colonial Jamaica. She is also the producer and host of ‘Talking History’ on Jamaican radio station Nationwide Radio 90 FM.
Symposium in honour of Prof. Rex Nettleford
The Hugh Lawson Shearer Trade Union Education Insitute (HLSTUEI), Open Campus, the University of the West Indies (UWI), in collaboration with the Mona Campus, UWI, are working together to organise a symposium in honour of the late Professor Emeritus, Professor Rex Nettleford.
The symposium will be held from April 7‐9, 2010 at the Mona Visitors’ Lodge on the Mona Campus in Jamaica.
For further information on the symposium, call the HLSTUEI at 977‐4290 or email hlstuei@open.uwi.edu .
Taken from the Tertiary Level Institutions Mailing List
Elections, Violence and the Democratic Process in Jamaica
Read Ian Boyne’s Review of Elections, Violence and the Democratic Process in Jamaica at http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100321/focus/focus3.html featured in the March 21, 2010 edition of the Sunday Gleaner.
The Misunderstood Apostrophe
The use of the apostrophe ( ‘ ) is so misunderstood. It has 2 major uses. (1) To denote the possessive by adding (’s) eg. the doctor’s office, Christine’s book and (2) To denote a contraction or missing letters eg. don’t (do not), she’ll (she will).It should not be used in words that are simply plurals such as 1980s (not 1980’s), and the dos and don’ts (not dos and don’t’s).
MAN VIBES
Dr Donna Hope Marquis
We’re pleased to announce one of our forthcoming publications in 2010: Man Vibes: Masculinities in the Jamaican Dancehall by Donna Hope-Marquis. The work discusses Jamaican masculinity as represented in the highly controversial dancehall music culture – Ole Dawg (promiscuity), Badman (violence), Chi Chi Man (anti-male homosexuality), Bling Bling (consumerist/consumptive), and Fashion Ova Style (stylised transgressions and homosexuality) – and explores the transition of Jamaican mansculinities in the 21st century. Donna is Lecturer in Reggae Studies in the Institute of Caribbean Studies at UWI, Mona. The book is scheduled for publication in June.
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